Just before his death, R. Refael of Bershiv exclaimed, “Thank you, God, I believe I have overcome pride.” However, he quickly corrected himself, saying “Alas! I have spent my entire life striving against pride (ga’ava) and dishonesty (sheker), and yet what I just uttered was filled with both.”
Y.F.
Tolner Rebbe
Late Hasidism was perceived and presented in research as a movement of institutionalization and entrenchment that lost the initial Hasidic renaissance, and even degenerated. Recently there have been changes in research and more complex methods and approaches have been introduced that find characteristics unique to late Hasidim.
